Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-08-27
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

The Duchess of Hamilton has
rented shop in London for the sale oil
her dairy products.
Secretary Endicot. has sen. one
hundred and forty more condemned
cannon to Gettysburg.
Mrs r. l.. Hughes, of Lexington,
Ga, owns butter dish which her
English ancestors ate out of in 1000.
Governor Hill, of New York, plays
with all the little children near the
executive mansion in Albany every
day.
Charles H. Woodruff, who has
made fortune in printing inks in
Philadelphia, was once a composltor
earning three dollars week.
The manuscript of "Home. Sweet
Home" has been buried in the coffin
with Miss Harden, of Georgia, who
half century ago rejected the hand OF
the author.
The Princess Pignatelli is acting
as a waiter girl in second-rate cafe in
Vienna. This is the lady who, after
quarrelng with her relatives lately
sang at a London music hall for live
! lihood.
1t is said there is town in Scot
land where twenty-five men have re-
fused to speak to on recognize each
other for years because they have diff
fereut theories about the creation OF
the world, and none of them will give
up to the other.
"A very large number CT Irish
names end with "agh." Agh generally
means field in Irish. Thus: Cavanagh
means hollow field; Currah, race field.
1t is not improbable that these names
; were originally given to people who
dwelt in or near localities which were
indicated by the name.-Phi'adelphia
l Press.
4 "A jubilee cup has been added to
Z the plate at the London Mansion
: House. 4 lion, a leopard, a kangaroo
c aed beaver support the base; the cover
l. bears the statuette of the Queen instead
y of the inevitable griilins; dolphins form
y the handles, and scenes from the colo
Il nes are embossed on the des.-Bos-
ie ton Transcript.
o jules Verne lives at Amiens. II
% was his custom to 90 to Paris once a
II month for day or two, until yeal
3 ago when he was wounded by pistol
le shot in the left leg He still limps, can
not bend his leg and is deprived of al
d exercise. He drives a good deal
Verne does not speak English. He il
10 great reader of English literature
y but he has to make use of translations
- -DetroH Free Press.
u Christine Terhune Herrick find
u that in "spite of the many instances o
III parsimonious and fault-fnding hus
bands, there is goodly number WHIT
ht feel thorough confidence in thel
III wives ability as domestic tinancicrs
II and do not hesitate to say that undc
'h such iudicious supervision their income
'S- 90 twice as far as they did in thei
hc bachelor days, and far more satisfac
e- torily." These men are growing rar
'h and of doubtful veracity.
-. Mrs. Mary Morris Johnson. of Phi,
F." adelphia, whose will has just been ad
90 80 mit;ed to probate, left 500, coo divide
Nv after fashion which fairly illustrate
W the vide interest taken in charity b
~ most Philadelphia women of indepenC
" VI ent means. Nearly thirty separate chal
en tiles are mentioned in the WILL to eac
", of which bequests are left, nearly a
ny being for those small and strugglin
i'o institutions which endeavor to suppl
lo i sorue missing link in the chain of chaI
n0 ~ itv by caring for some special class =
n Harpcr'S Ba:dr.